Richard Linklater: BEFORE MIDNIGHT (2013)

The unprecedented third in the Linnklaer-Hawke-Delpy "Before" series, each nine years apart, is the SFIFF closing night film. A full review will appear here on theatrical release 24 May 2013. The work is as polished as ever, but it doesn't succeed quite as well now that Jesse and Céline are a longtime cohabiting couple and not a romantic pair meeting and reuniting, mainly because Delpy's neurotic argumentativeness, honed in her own two relationship pictures 2 DAYS IN PARIS and 2 DAYS IN NEW YORK, seems exaggerated. But this may be like Apted's "Up" series in fictional form, and if it continues there could be a richer iteration next time. Anyway many fans of the format will love this, with the squabbling.